Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

In 1929, Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above," a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced twenty-five million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West.



This book forms the second volume of Robert C. Tucker's biography of Joseph Stalin, fol...